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Re:We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazo... by tingletech on Monday August 17, 2026 @02:15PM (#49335290)
Weeding (the library term of art for selecting works for deacquisition) is a very import part of collection management. It's actually regionally and nationally coordinated so the interlibary loan network does not throw away the last copies.

https://cdlib.org/west/ https://papr.crl.edu https://eastlibraries.org

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Re:We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazo... by dingaling on Monday August 17, 2026 @04:34PM (#49337244)
You're fortunate if that's the case for where you live.

In the UK weeding is at the discretion of the Branch Librarian. Books I checked out 15 years ago have now vanished from the system.

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Re:We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazo... by tingletech on Friday August 21, 2026 @11:58AM (#49390052)
UK has a shared print program

http://ukpbc.uk

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